The operation succeeded in capturing the Dutch cities of Eindhoven and Nijmegen along with many towns, and limited V-2 rocket launching sites. It was the largest airborne operation of the war up to that point. About 100,000 German soldiers were in the vicinity to oppose the allied offensive. Ten armored and motorized brigades consisting of a similar number of soldiers participated in the land operation. More than 41,000 allied airborne soldiers participated in the airborne operation. The airborne operation was planned and undertaken by the First Allied Airborne Army with the land operation by XXX Corps of the British Second Army. This was to be achieved by two sub-operations: seizing nine bridges with combined US and British airborne forces ( Market) followed by land forces swiftly following over the bridges ( Garden). Its objective was to create a 64 mi (103 km) salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the River Rhine, creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany. Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 27 September 1944.
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